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[ANN] Version 27 of the Oxygen XML Suite of Products is Now Available!
by Alin Belu 27 Nov '24

27 Nov '24

Hello everyone, We are proud to announce the immediate availability of *version 27* of its industry-leading XML suite of products: *Oxygen XML Editor*, *Author*, *Developer*, *Web Author*, *Publishing Engine*, *WebHelp*, *PDF Chemistry*, *Scripting*, and *JSON Editor*. The newest release for Oxygen XML Editor highlights significant advancements in AI capabilities, particularly through the enhanced Oxygen AI Positron Assistant plugin, which now integrates Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for more relevant and context-aware responses. New Intelligent Agents streamline DITA XML topic management, while a wide range of other AI-driven actions help authors automate tedious authoring tasks such as generating image descriptions, resolving comments, and refining XML structures. Additionally, AI-powered development actions have been introduced for tasks such as code explanation, code generation, documentation, and refactoring. The upgraded JSON editing tools grant developers the ability to transform JSON content using XQuery processing, advanced customization options, and streamlined code templates. The update also includes expanded support for XQuery 4.0 and XSLT 4.0 with the upgraded Saxon 12.5 processor. Furthermore, enhancements were implemented for YAML, HTML, Markdown, and some of our popular add-ons, along with essential security updates. For Oxygen XML Web Author version 27, in addition to the new features for the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant plugin, users can enjoy improved review and editing capabilities, support for Markdown and other non-XML files in the file comparison and merge tool, and experimental support for editing DITA maps in a specialized tree editor. This release also includes important component updates, bug fixes, and security enhancements for the innovative web-based XML authoring tool. Oxygen Publishing Engine version 27 comes with additional customization options for producing WebHelp and PDF output. ====================================================================== *What's New in Oxygen XML Editor 27* *Oxygen XML Editor version 27* is the latest major release of the ultimate toolkit for content authors, developers, collaborators, and publishers. This release is packed with innovative new features and improvements for the *Oxygen AI Positron Assistant*, the powerful add-on designed to enhance productivity and assist writers by providing support for using AI-generated content within the various Oxygen tools. The Oxygen AI Positron Assistant now leverages the*Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)* process to obtain relevant context from the users' project or from website content that integrates the Oxygen Feedback search functionality. The /AI Positron Fix/ action now also utilizes the RAG process to enhance the AI's response and /Function Calls/ can be referenced in custom actions to give the AI more context information that leads to more accurate responses. *Intelligent Agents* is a new category of actions for the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant, designed to streamline DITA XML topic management. These intelligent agents go beyond simple content manipulation, offering advanced capabilities to save files, add references, and access a wide range of functions for contextual understanding and project structure modification. A variety of other common AI actions for DITA authoring were implemented, such as actions to proofread content, resolve comments, improve the XML structure, reuse components, generate documentation drafts, and more. An AI category was also added to the /XML Refactoring/ wizard to perform repetitive tasks for DITA content such as generating alternate text for images, adding missing short descriptions, and shortening existing short descriptions. Interface improvements related to the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant include a new /AI Positron Assistant drop-down widget/ that offers a very quick and convenient way of accessing useful AI actions. It also contains a helpful /Rewrite Content/ action that opens a floating input box where users can provide the AI with instructions on how to rewrite selected content. Custom user-defined AI actions can be configured to appear as /Quick Assist/ fixes in the editor. Support was also added for Vision models, allowing the AI to read and interpret images. Users have new AI models to choose from, including GPT-4o-mini, GPT-4o, and GPT-4 Turbo, and the *Oxygen AI Positron Enterprise Edition* provides the ability to use a specific AI engine (OpenAI, Microsoft Azure OpenAI, or Anthropic Claude). Other miscellaneous improvements and security enhancements were implemented for the AI functionality as well. Several built-in AI development actions have been introduced, including /Explain Code/, /Chat About Code/, /Document Code/, /Generate Code/, and /Suggest Refactoring/, which can be used to enhance coding efficiency and documentation. Additionally, users can define custom AI actions for various document types such as XSLT, Schematron, XSD, CSS, XQuery, JSON, and JSON Schema. *JSON users* can now transform their content using XQuery processing and the XQuery Builder view can be used to compose complex XQuery expressions to be executed over JSON documents. Some indentation improvements were implemented, such as the ability to indent a particular selection of content rather than the whole document, content inserted by the Content Completion Assistant is automatically indented, as is pasted JSON content. Some customization options were also added and code templates were improved to streamline the JSON editing process. For *XSLT and XQuery developers*, the built-in Saxon processor used for transformations and debugging was updated to version 12.5, including support to handle Saxon's latest extension functions. Support was also added for XQuery 4.0, which means users can run transformation scenarios for version 4.0 documents from the editor or the /XQuery Builder/ view, and can edit them with complete support for content completion, syntax highlights, and more. Additionally, the new *Apply All Default Quick Fix Proposals* tool makes it possible to apply all proposed fixes on multiple resources at once. New features and enhancements have been added for working with YAML, HTML, and Markdown documents, as well as for handling file comparisons. Various other miscellaneous productivity improvements are also included. Some of the popular add-ons were updated such as the /Git Client/ and /Terminology Checker/. As always, this release also provides various important component updates, API additions, bug fixes, and security enhancements. Moreover, Syncro Soft has earned the ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, demonstrating a strong commitment to implementing top-tier information security practices and ensuring that the users' data is protected to the highest standards. For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/whats_new.html ====================================================================== *What's New in Oxygen JSON Editor 27* *Oxygen JSON Editor version 27* includes all the JSON-related features from Oxygen XML Editor and this new version improves the AI functionality, introduces XQuery processing over JSON files, support for applying all default Quick Fix proposals, and more. For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/json_editor/whats_new.html ====================================================================== *What's New in Oxygen XML Scripting 27* *Oxygen XML Scripting version 27* offers various updates to the Compare Directories script. For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_scripting/whats_new.html ====================================================================== *What's New in Oxygen XML Web Author 27* *Oxygen XML Web Author version 27* is the latest major release of the innovative web-based XML authoring tool. This release is packed with innovative new AI features and improvements that have been implemented in recent updates to the *Oxygen AI Positron Assistant Enterprise for Web Author* plugin, the powerful productivity-enhancing tool that provides users with the ability to use a specific AI engine (OpenAI, Microsoft Azure OpenAI, or Anthropic Claude) and help them leverage AI-generated content. Users can also look forward to new features for the file comparison and merge tool, support to make DITA maps editable in a specialized tree editor, some general editing improvements, and various security enhancements. The AI Positron Assistant now uses a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) process to generate more meaningful responses by obtaining relevant context from the current document or a documentation site that utilizes Oxygen Feedback's search functionality. A variety of new actions designed to streamline DITA authoring were implemented for the AI Positron Assistant. These DITA-related actions help to improve the structure of documents, proofread content, resolve comments located within topics, generate alternate text for images, expand a draft of a DITA topic, or to split large DITA topics into smaller modules. Other miscellaneous additions for the AI Positron Assistant include the ability for the users to filter the list of AI actions to exclude those that are not considered useful. Favorite prompts now can also be stored for easy future use. A user-friendly UI button makes it easy to edit messages before sending them to the AI. Additionally, the document type and any content selected in the main editor area is automatically passed as context for the conversation, making responses more relevant. General editing improvements bring the ability to highlight document content using predefined colors that are accessible from a toolbar drop-down menu, and the Outline pane is now editable within concurrent editing sessions (previously, it was displayed as read-only). For Git integrations, a new specialized editor was added to enable the editing of plain text. The file comparison tool now supports comparisons of Markdown and other non-XML files and the merge tool now allows users to manage comments and tracked changes with contextual actions. The option to disable or relax the Content Security Policy is now also available. Furthermore, new URL parameters have been introduced to control how excluded content is presented or to enable text and Markdown editing. This release also provides various component updates, bug fixes, and security enhancements. For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_web_author/whats_new.html ====================================================================== *What's New in Oxygen Publishing Engine 27* *Oxygen Publishing Engine version 27* encompasses the improvements and additions implemented in *Oxygen XML WebHelp* and *Oxygen PDF Chemistry*. This version adds additional customization options for producing WebHelp and PDF output, as well as support for PDF signing. For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/publishing_engine/whats_new.html ====================================================================== *DITA-OT Day 2025* On the *16th of February, 2025*, Oxygen XML organizes the 9th edition of the *DITA-OT Day conference*, this time in *Copenhagen, Denmark*. This is a full day, in-person event dedicated to the DITA Open Toolkit project, which is the reference DITA implementation and the core of almost all DITA-based publishing solutions (Oxygen Publishing Engine included). Find out more details and registration information at https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2025/dita-ot_day.html ============================================================================= We hope you will enjoy our latest release of the Oxygen XML suite of products! As always, thank you for your support and don't forget that feedback is welcome! Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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Re: [oXygen-user] [OXYGEN-20165] Custom Refactoring Operations and using XSLT Java extensions
by Oxygen XML Editor Support (Radu Coravu) 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

Hello Jirka, The framework "Classpath" list is used by Oxygen to load JAR libraries containing custom Author actions, framework Java extensions. So for now we do not use this list of libraries as possible libraries containing Java extension code used for XML refactoring scripts. I added an internal issue for this, pasting the issue ID below for future reference: EXM-54892 XML refactor - allow adding extension functions using framework classpath I think for now in order for the XML refactoring scripts to be able to call the Java code, the JAR library would need to be contributed by a plugin with scope="global": https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/26.1/ug-editor/topics/oxygen-plugin.… Like this plugin for example: https://github.com/oxygenxml/oxygenxml.cgm.support/blob/master/plugin.xml For example you could bundle a plugin with a framework folder inside it and distribute it as an add-on to the end user: https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/26.1/ug-editor/topics/additional-fra… Regards, Radu Radu Coravu Oxygen XML Editor On 10/14/24 18:23, Jirka Kosek wrote: > Hi, > > I'm writing Custom Refactoring Operation in XSLT. XSLT code uses Java > library for accessing image metadata. When I run transformation > locally everything works as expected as long as I add corresponding > .jar file as an extension in transformation scenario. > > However when I bundle this transformation as a refactoring operation > inside framework I'm getting the following error message when > operation is invoked "Errors were reported during stylesheet > compilation". I suppose that this is caused by missig .jar file to > which XSLT code makes calls. I've tried to add this .jar into > classpath in "Document Type Associations" on "Classpath" but this > hasn't resolved the problem. > > Where it is possible to register additional .jar files to be used by > refactoring operation implemented in XSLT? > > Many thanks in advance, > > Jirka > > > _______________________________________________ > oXygen-user mailing list > oXygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com > https://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user

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[ANN] Oxygen AI Positron Assistant 4.0 is now available!
by Alin Belu 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

Hi everyone, We are proud to announce the release of *Oxygen AI Positron Assistant 4.0*, a powerful tool that helps users increase their productivity by providing support for using AI-generated content within Oxygen tools - Oxygen XML Editor/Author/Developer, Oxygen JSON Editor, Oxygen XML Web Author, and Oxygen Content Fusion. *Version 4.0* enhances the existing AI features and introduces new actions and functionalities, making the assistant even more capable. With version 4.0, the recently implemented Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) optimization process was broadened. In addition to retrieving context information from a project, it can now also *retrieve content* using the Oxygen Feedback search functionality. The *AI Positron Fix* action now also leverages the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) process, leading to more relevant error fixes. *Intelligent Agents* is a newly added category of AI-powered actions that introduces a set of powerful tools designed to streamline DITA XML topic management. These intelligent agents go beyond simple content manipulation, offering advanced capabilities to save files, add references to the DITA map, and access a wide range of functions for contextual understanding and project structure modification. The new actions available in this category include: * *Expand Draft* - Enhances a draft of a DITA XML topic by refining the content, adding markup that is consistent with similar topics, and generating documentation based on the referenced images using Vision support. * *Split Topic* - Splits large topics with numerous subjects into multiple topic files. The newly created topics are also conveniently referenced in the DITA map that is currently open in the DITA Maps Manager. * *Create Topics* - Generates DITA XML topics based upon your input, incorporating relevant project content. It creates a topic hierarchy, assigns DITA document types, and proposes a DITA map location. Topics are then saved and added upon your approval. The *Reuse* category is another addition to the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant, focusing on optimizing content management and consistency within DITA XML workflows. It introduces the following AI-powered actions: * *Component* - Asks the AI to identify the most similar existing reusable component that matches the current selected paragraph. * *Product Name* - Searches for product names in the selected content and replaces them with key references if keys are defined for the particular product names. Developers will benefit from the new *Suggest Refactoring* AI action, which generates suggestions to refactor selected XSLT or XSD code, thus making it easier to understand and maintain. Additionally, the existing *Generate Code* action now produces code that is more relevant to the current editor type (XSL, XQuery, CSS, JSON, XML Schema, or Schematron) by reusing components from the current document. Moreover, information about the document type is now automatically passed to the AI for context in chat sessions, and various new function calls were added that can be referenced within custom actions to offer context information in order to retrieve more relevant answers from the AI. Other improvements include the proper detection of Markdown content containing XML code in the AI's response, allowing for the XML code block to be inserted or previewed. Additionally, document type information is now automatically passed as context for conversations when initiated directly from a new chat with the AI. Various security enhancements have also been implemented. For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/ai_positron_assistant.html As always, thank you for your support and don't forget that feedback is welcome! Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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Re: [oXygen-user] [OXYGEN-20565] Call for U.S. government agencies who use Oxygen XML Editor
by Oxygen XML Editor Support (Radu Coravu) 28 Oct '24

28 Oct '24

Hi Joe, The only list of clients which we can disclose is the list publicly available here: https://www.oxygenxml.com/customers.html I encourage other users on this list to contact you personally if they want to disclose this information. Regards, Radu Radu Coravu Oxygen XML Editor On 10/25/24 21:17, Joe Wicentowski wrote: > Hi all, > > Do anyone know of users of Oxygen XML Editor at U.S. federal > government agencies (other than the State Department, where I work)? > I'm trying to assemble a list of agencies that are using it. > > Thanks! > Joe > > p.s. Apologies for cross-posting! I also sent this to the XML.com > Slack. I'm happy to take the information over whichever channel you > prefer. ;) > > _______________________________________________ > oXygen-user mailing list > oXygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com > https://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user

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Re: [oXygen-user] [OXYGEN-20550] Lorem Ipsum generator add-on?
by Oxygen XML Editor Support (Radu Coravu) 26 Oct '24

26 Oct '24

Hi Tony, The Oxygen main menu Help->Support tools->"Randomize XML content" uses an XML refactoring action to do something similar in order to replace text inside an initial set of XML documents with "Lorem ipsum". Regards, Radu Radu Coravu Oxygen XML Editor On 10/25/24 13:07, Tony Graham wrote: > Has anyone made a (publicly available) Lorem Ipsum generator add-on that > can generate and insert a desired amount of Lorem Ipsum-style text > wrapped in a desired paragraph-equivalent element? > > Regards, > > > Tony Graham.

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Call for U.S. government agencies who use Oxygen XML Editor
by Joe Wicentowski 25 Oct '24

25 Oct '24

Hi all, Do anyone know of users of Oxygen XML Editor at U.S. federal government agencies (other than the State Department, where I work)? I'm trying to assemble a list of agencies that are using it. Thanks! Joe p.s. Apologies for cross-posting! I also sent this to the XML.com Slack. I'm happy to take the information over whichever channel you prefer. ;)

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Lorem Ipsum generator add-on?
by Tony Graham 25 Oct '24

25 Oct '24

Has anyone made a (publicly available) Lorem Ipsum generator add-on that can generate and insert a desired amount of Lorem Ipsum-style text wrapped in a desired paragraph-equivalent element? Regards, Tony Graham. -- Senior Architect XML Division Antenna House, Inc. ---- Skerries, Ireland tgraham(a)antenna.co.jp

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Custom Refactoring Operations and using XSLT Java extensions
by Jirka Kosek 14 Oct '24

14 Oct '24

Hi, I'm writing Custom Refactoring Operation in XSLT. XSLT code uses Java library for accessing image metadata. When I run transformation locally everything works as expected as long as I add corresponding .jar file as an extension in transformation scenario. However when I bundle this transformation as a refactoring operation inside framework I'm getting the following error message when operation is invoked "Errors were reported during stylesheet compilation". I suppose that this is caused by missig .jar file to which XSLT code makes calls. I've tried to add this .jar into classpath in "Document Type Associations" on "Classpath" but this hasn't resolved the problem. Where it is possible to register additional .jar files to be used by refactoring operation implemented in XSLT? Many thanks in advance, Jirka -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka(a)kosek.cz http://xmlguru.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------ Professional XML and Web consulting and training services DocBook/DITA customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing ------------------------------------------------------------------ Bringing you XML Prague conference http://xmlprague.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------

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[ANN] Oxygen Content Fusion 7.1 is now available!
by Alin Belu 08 Oct '24

08 Oct '24

Hello everyone, We are proud to announce the release of *Oxygen Content Fusion 7.1*, the web-based collaboration platform for content creation! Version 7.1 of Oxygen Content Fusion builds on the *projects* concept introduced in the previous version by enhancing its functionality and offering even more capabilities. A project enables you to make changes across multiple files and once you are happy with the results, these can be committed directly to the repository to be shared with the rest of your team. This release provides various new ways to manage the project's files and folders within your personal workspace, including easy methods for renaming or moving resources. The references for renamed or moved files are updated automatically to ensure that the links and references remain valid. Now, you have simple ways to upload resources from your local computer to your workspace. Other file management improvements include the ability to discard all changes to return the personal workspace to a clean state and the new multiple editor tabs support makes project exploration more efficient. The personal workspace also received two powerful features, one for searching within the project and another for validating the entire DITA project, especially useful before committing to make sure the changes do not introduce any problems. Also, defining new publications and updating existing ones is now possible directly from the personal workspace. All changes that are the result of creating and editing publications can now be submitted in a single commit. The file comparison tool was enhanced with the possibility of comparing XML files in text mode and the diff and merge support now also works for Markdown and other text files. It is now possible to create a review task from the changes that you make in your personal workspace, making it easier to send the changes for review before integrating them into the project. Other improvements were implemented to streamline and boost the authoring experience. Now, you have the ability to highlight document content using one of the predefined color markers to flag content that needs special attention, for example during a review process. A toolbar action was added to display and edit a DITA map with all of the topic content expanded as one document. You are now able to insert links and add references to existing topics within a DITA map using drag and drop functionality. Additionally, a simple text editor is provided for making changes to non-XML files in the personal workspace. For more information about the new release, please see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/content_fusion/whats_new.html You may also try these new features on our public demo deployment: https://fusion.oxygenxml.com/projects We hope you will enjoy our latest release! As always, thank you for your support and don't forget that feedback is welcome! Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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Installing Oxygen on a new computer
by Frank Dissinger 30 Sep '24

30 Sep '24

Hi support, hi group, I have to migrate all my programs to a new computer with Windows 11. What is the quickest way to set up Oxygen in the same way as it was on my old computer? I know I can import/export some features such as window layouts and themes and I know where I have saved my custom frameworks to. But what about document type associations, profiling/condition settings for author mode and all the other preferences? Is there a directory tree where all this is stored and which I could just copy over the existing files? Freundliche Grüße | Best regards Frank Dissinger Documentation Manager .......................................... CGS ORIS GmbH Email <mailto:frank.dissinger@cgs-oris.com> frank.dissinger(a)cgs-oris.com | Web <http://www.cgs-oris.com/> www.cgs-oris.com Address Kettelerstrasse 24 | 63512 Hainburg | Germany Phone +49 6182 9626-0 | Fax +49 6182 9626-99 Commercial register Offenbach, HRB no. 21495 Managing directors Bernd Rückert, Christoph Thommessen <https://www.cgs-oris.com/signatur>

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